Introduction

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The following sections describe the types of switches, routers, and firewalls that SL1 can monitor using the built-in discovery processes and Dynamic Applications that are delivered with SL1:

What Switches, Routers, and Firewalls Can be Monitored "Out of the Box"?

SL1 can discover and monitor most routers, switches, and firewalls using the built-in discovery processes and the default Dynamic Applications.

Dynamic Applications

SL1 can monitor most switches, routers, and firewalls using the default Dynamic Applications included with the product. You can install additional Dynamic Applications from the ScienceLogic Support Site at no cost.

Using the default Dynamic Applications, SL1 can monitor switches, routers, and firewalls from most vendors, either using a vendor-specific Dynamic Application and a vendor-specific MIB or a generic Dynamic Application for switches, routers, and firewalls using generic MIBs.

The default version of the SL1 includes vendor-specific Dynamic Applications for:

  • Alteon
  • Brocade
  • Cisco
  • Force 10
  • Fortinet
  • Foundry
  • HP ProCurve
  • Juniper
  • Netscreen
  • Nokia

The default version of the SL1 includes a PowerPack called Generic Switch/Router MIB Support that can collect details from devices for which there are no vendor-specific Dynamic Applications.

NOTE: If neither the vendor-specific Dynamic Applications nor the generic Dynamic Applications monitor one or more routers or switches in your network, you can create custom Dynamic Applications using SNMP and the the user interface. For details, see the section on Dynamic Application Development.

Discovery

During initial discovery, SL1 can discover device information, interfaces, IP addresses, and networks for devices that support the following MIBs:

  • BRIDGE-MIB
  • CISCO-CDP-MIB
  • CISCO-ETHERNET-FABRIC-EXTENDER-MIB
  • CISCO-FCOE-MIB
  • CISCO-PORT-CHANNEL-MIB
  • CISCO-PROCESS-MIB
  • CISCO-SYSTEM-EXT-MIB
  • HOST-RESOURCES-MIB
  • IF-MIB
  • IP-MIB
  • SYSTEM-MIB
  • UCD-SNMP-MIB

PowerPacks

This section describes content from the following PowerPack versions:

  • Generic Switch/Router MIB Support, version 104
  • Cisco: Base Pack, version 214
  • Juniper Base Pack, version 103